Pending the Water having here
the only question supplied
remaining being the amount of payment to be made, three months
have been allowed them
allowed
due will be cost
the correspondence
the
Jucar
with negotiations &
the
a
sufficient
allow
conducive of
time for
the reply & the
Was office letter to the gov of Hong Kong
last
if indeed the lands in question have then
t
Expiration of
And
the 3 months
allowed by the query suggest that the WD then sent telegraph to the gov.l. & waited reply to their letter
12th March 1917
No.
4,38A
It is requested that in any further communication on this subject, the above Number may be quoted, and the Letter addressed to
The Under Secretary of State for War,
War Office, Pall Mall,
London, (S.W.)
78169
Sir,
With
R
16 JUL
16.
493
2.0.
WAR OFFICE 3806
London 15th July 1919
the
reference to your letter of the 4th instant, respecting land south of Kennedy Road
Hong Kong, I am directed to acquaint you - for the information of Lord Knutsford
that there was a
distinct
agreement to the effect that
the land should not be sold until Tytan
tam water
was
laid on to the Cantonments, and that the Secretary of
State for
as it is
War regards
a matter of importance
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office
that the
D
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